My question is simple. What ever happened to the thought of being a self-sufficient independent person? I suppose its more posed towards the female gender, but I'm sure it applies to both species. There seems to be a need more than ever to be connected to someone, to live with someone- practically anything but independent.
Granted I'm all about relationships (and in one) but the thought of living with someone (sorry, Dan) scares the crap out of me! It's like going back to living with the parents, with a few bonuses. You have the sharing of space, mutual cleaning/responsibilities, someone hounding you for not doing your part, sharing groceries, bills, purchases... I mean it's endless!! You head out with your girlfriends, and you let your boy know when you are going to be home. What happens when you are late? It's like you went past your curfew, and he's mad, but mostly because you made him worry (hello high school!)
How can you experience everything you need to when there is someone else to worry about? Is it better to experience every single thing with them before you are even married? What does that voice inside ones head say when its time to move in with someone? Do you just try it out, then find it doesn't work out so hot, and lose your safety deposit, plus head out to find somewhere else to live? When do you approach those really awkward conversations like his personal hygienic habits or your hour and a half or grooming in the morning? Is it really worth it? I'm all about personal happiness, and hell if these are the means to the end, by golly you best be moving!! But what do you miss out on? Is there a right time? A wrong time? A good age? A bad age? A good reason? A bad reason? As I promised- full of questions.
Disclaimer: This post was not directed to any certain individual(s) so please do not flatter yourself and think I wrote about you. That's just silly.
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
(Helen Keller)
I beg you...to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. and the point is, to live everything. live the questions now. perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
(Rainer Maria Rilke)
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams...
(Eleanor Roosevelt)
Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Continue to learn. Appreciate your friends. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.
(Mary Anne Radmacher)
Do one thing every day that scares you.
(Eleanor Roosevelt)
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
(Unknown)
(Helen Keller)
I beg you...to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. and the point is, to live everything. live the questions now. perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
(Rainer Maria Rilke)
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams...
(Eleanor Roosevelt)
Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Continue to learn. Appreciate your friends. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.
(Mary Anne Radmacher)
Do one thing every day that scares you.
(Eleanor Roosevelt)
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
(Unknown)
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